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  1. 7701LetterENA NS 46.23

    Most likely a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The ink is mottled in many places, at times bearing the appearance that a scribe wrote over a …

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  2. 7702List or tableT-S 8J37.2

    List of names and amounts in Coptic numerals on back of a letter. After the list comes: 'Six days: Sunday -- 2; Monday -- 2; …

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    1. .....
    2. מחאסן יוסף
    3. ½ 1
    4. יוסף .מקה
    5. 1
    6. יעקוב וחסין
    7. ½ 1
    8. מנצור ...ה
    9. 3
    10. מנצור ואליה יעקוב
    11. [?] [?]
    12. פציל מנצור מנצור רשיד
    13. ½ ½ ½ ¼ ? ½
    14. פציל
    15. {סתה א…

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  3. 7703Paraliterary textIOM D 55.9

    Record of a birth, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic (in two different hands) and Arabic script. The date is given according to multiple calendars, including 13 Iyyar …

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  4. 7704Literary textT-S Misc.8.39

    Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  5. 7705LetterT-S NS J134

    Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a beautifully styled request. This may not be addressed to the writer's mother and father. Rather, the sender is making …

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  6. 7706Legal documentT-S K22.27

    Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …

    Right side of bifolio 2r (Documents 14-15):

    1. שימסור הר׳ פינחס הנז׳ כל הנכסים של הר׳ משה הנ׳ אשר בידו
    2. ליד אינו נאמן כפי ראית עינינו בתורת עסקא להתעסק

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  7. 7707LetterJRL A 370

    Letter from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ to Confrada Khumsa Kharja(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century.

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  8. 7708Legal documentNLI 577.1/48

    Legal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary and damaged, bottom half. Mentions a Christian (al-Naṣrānī al-Dhimmī) who is probably the proprietor, and measures of wheats in …

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  9. 7709LetterT-S G1.53

    Private letter almost entirely in Aramaic, with a few phrases in Hebrew. (It is rare for a letter to have this much Aramaic.) Dating: maybe …

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  10. 7710LetterBL OR 10589.14

    Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The first four lines of recto seem to be praises for the power and honor of the …

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  11. 7711Legal documentT-S AS 1.97

    Probably part of a court record. (Information from CUDL)

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  12. 7712List or tableT-S Ar.39.106

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly related to state finances based on the recurring mention of "stipends" "jamakiyya". Dated in multiple entries as 937–938 AH, which is …

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  13. 7713LetterDK 315

    Letter from Najm [...] al-Muʿallim the brother-in-law of Kamāl b. Yūsuf, in Fustat, to his 'brother' the cantor Musāfir ha-Bavli, in Alexandria. Spellings are eccentric. …

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  14. 7714Legal documentT-S Ar.39.177

    Recto: May be a will of a woman (mentions the term وصية several times and في صحة عقلها), also mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Maghribī. Verso: Possibly …

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  15. 7715Literary textT-S Ar.50.205

    Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.

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  16. 7716LetterT-S AS 158.292

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Refers to a letter from the wālī; and people such as Sayyidnā; Ṭāhir; the arrival of al-Zariz; and Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya.

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  17. 7717Legal documentENA NS 3.2

    Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving Binyamin b. Avraham. Dated: Probably 1414 or 1417 Seleucid = 1112/13 or 1115/16 CE.Needs conservation. There are also two other …

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  18. 7718List or tableENA NS 52.23

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: late. Possibly naming a year in the first line of the verso, where سنة appears as a …

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  19. 7719Paraliterary textENA NS 71.11

    Magical and/or religious formulae. In Arabic script and magical symbols.

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  20. 7720LetterT-S AS 153.173

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting and spelling. Small fragment (upper left corner). The sender wishes to be united with their son (or father, since this …

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  21. 7721List or tableCUL Or.1080 J148

    Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions [...] b. Ṣāʿid; 370 dirhams; and "the balance" (al-bāqī). Dating: ca. 1200 based on recto.

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  22. 7722LetterMoss. IV,39.5A

    Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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  23. 7723LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1510

    Recto: Letter from an unknown man to a communal authority. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is seeking help in a convoluted case involving marital trouble and …

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  24. 7724Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.30.184

    IB V, 32. 20 orders of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen. See individual PGPIDs (18979 through 18998). See also Goitein's attached notes.

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  25. 7725Unknown typeCUL Or.1081 J55

    A colorful drawing of what looks like a man setting off a cannon.

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  26. 7726State documentT-S K2.1

    State document, probably a report. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. Concerning the opening of the canal (Fatḥ al-Khalīj, a major festival in Fatimid …

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  27. 7727Legal documentENA NS 77.329

    Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Somewhat crude hand. Unclear if any details of the case are preserved.

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  28. 7728State documentT-S Ar.39.464

    Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …

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    1.     عبدها مبارك بن ابرهيم بن 
    2.                    سبرا 
    3.      بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    4. عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الكافي معتمد الدولة اطا[ل الله]…

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    1. His slave Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm b.
    2. Sabrā
    3. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
    4. The slave of the presence of my master, the most glo…

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  29. 7729LetterT-S 13J9.11

    Letter and a responsum, on either side of the same sheet of paper, detailing the story of a man in distress, particularly because of debt. …

    1. אלממלוך יקבל אלארץ לפני הדרת מושב אד[ונינו
    2. ירומם ויגדל ויחיה לעד וינהי //אנה// כאן קד אחצר
    3. לפני הדרת מושבו ירומם רקעת תתצמן בעץ
    4. שרח חאלה פכרג בעץ תל…

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    Concerning Reuben against whom there is a bill of debt [...], and he lacks the means to pay and does not have that with which to support himsel…

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  30. 7730Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 60/41

    Hebrew poetry.

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  31. 7731Unknown typeNLI 577.1/35

    Document in Arabic script. State document? Wide space between lines, upslanting.

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  32. 7732Legal documentT-S AS 169.203

    Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Nothing preserved apart from some release formulae.

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  33. 7733LetterT-S 13J6.4

    Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אנא אקבל ידי //חצרה// מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אלסייד אלפאצל
    3. אדאם אללה תאידה וכבת //[אעדאה]// כאן ינעם עלי עבדה [
    4. אן יחצל מא קד תבקא פאיש מא חצל מא…

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  34. 7734State documentT-S AS 165.215

    Probably a state document in Arabic script, reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ. The Arabic document is very difficult to read.

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  35. 7735State documentT-S Ar.42.129

    Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …

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  36. 7736Unknown typeENA NS 76.539

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  37. 7737Unknown typeENA NS 76.494

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  38. 7738List or tableT-S AS 204.89

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Barakāt and the collection of collaterals. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

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  39. 7739Unknown typeT-S Ar.39.374

    Bifolium from a larger work in Arabic script. Unidentified. Possibly a collection of poetic texts or letters

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  40. 7740Legal documentT-S 20.132

    Marriage contract (ketubba), fragment.

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  41. 7741State documentNLI 577.8/4

    Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably late. An internal report of some kind in a very formal tone. The beginning of the document mentions …

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    1. ـف ورفع الامر في ذلك لمولانا السلطان الانام
    2. الشـ]ـريف باعاليه نصره الله تعالى نصرا عزيزا فـ[
    3. الر[]ـعة بسبب ذلك وعقد لكما اسا[
    4. الاربعة ادام الل…

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  42. 7742LetterENA 3768.2

    Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170s–1218) to Pinḥas b. Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. …

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    1. כבוד הדר]ת י[קרת צפירת תפארת כבוד
    2. גדולת קדושת מרנא ורבנא פינחס הרב המבהק
    3. המעוז והמגדול יברכהו שומרו ויצילו מיד רודפו ומבקש
    4. רעתו כי יפול לא יוט…
    1. [(To) the honour, the glor]y, the grandeur, the diadem, the splendour, the honour,
    2. the greatness, and the holiness of our teacher and rabbi Pinḥas t…

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  43. 7743LetterT-S 8J16.22

    Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …

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    1. עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי

    2. אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך

    3. מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<

    4. למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד

    5. וצלו וצחה אלעדה …

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    1. (2−1) אני מצרף פתק זה, אדוני, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את חסדיו לך,
    2. מבוציר, באחרון של תשרי; לפני כן שלחתי לך מכתב,
    3. אדוני, והודעתיך …

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  44. 7744Legal documentT-S NS 264.48

    Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Verso: A scrawled record of a property lease dated 23 Nisan 1539 Seleucid = 1228 CE. The renter is …

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  45. 7745Legal query or responsumYevr.-Arab. II 1415

    Legal queries regarding inheritance rendered in Hebrew verse. At the bottom a poem in the first-person expressing love for a wife of many years: אני …

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  46. 7746Legal documentT-S AS 69.214

    Fragment from the beginning of a kettuba. The bride's father's name is Munajjā ha-Parnas (ZL) and the groom is Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. There is a later …

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  47. 7747Legal documentT-S AS 180.147

    Recto: unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe a draft petition since it contains a taqbīl in the top line and ends with ṣalwala and ḥasbala. …

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  48. 7748Unknown typeENA NS 85.327

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  49. 7749Unknown typeENA NS 85.882

    Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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  50. 7750State documentT-S K8.102

    Report from Tyre to the chancery of al-Malik al-Afḍal concerning military and administrative affairs on the coast of Palestine, dating probably to 1108 CE. Same …

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